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Nova Bossa Nova / A Second Fortuitous Meeting




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English Title: Nova Bossa Nova -The Stolen Carnival- / A Second Fortuitous Meeting -My only shinin' star-
Japanese Title: ノバ・ボサ・ノバ -盗まれたカルナバル- / めぐり会いは再び -My only shinin’ star-
Romanized Title: Noba Bosa Noba -Nusumareta Karunebaru- / Meguriai wa Futatabi -My only shinin' star-

Troupe: Star
Year: 2011
Performances: Takarazuka Grand Theater, 04/15 - 05/16; Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, 06/03 - 07/03
Shinjin Kouen Performances: Takarazuka Grand Theater, 05/03; Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, 06/16

Nova Bossa Nova:

Author: Kamogawa Seisaku
Director: Fujii Daisuke
Composer: Irie Kaoru, Terada Takio, Yoshizaki Kenji, Yoshida Yuuko, Aoki Tomoko, Teshima Kyouko
Choreographer: Hayama Kiyomi, Shou Sumire, Muromachi Akane, Ueshima Yukio, Miori Yumino, Wakao Risa
Conductor (Takarazuka): Misaki Megumi
Conductor (Tokyo): Misaki Megumi
Shinjin Kouen Director: Noguchi Kousaku

A Second Fortuitous Meeting:

Based On: Marivaux's "The Game of Love and Chance"
Author/Director: Koyanagi Naoko
Composer: Yoshida Yuuko
Choreographer: Hayama Kiyomi, Miori Yumino, KAZUMI-BOY
Conductor (Takarazuka): Ooyagi Yasushi
Conductor (Tokyo): Kiyokawa Tomomi

Available on DVD: Yes (release date 06/29/11)
Available on Blu-Ray (A Second Fortuitous Meeting only): Yes (release date 04/30/22)
DVD Scene/Music Cut: Yes
From 'Nova Bossa Nova': Scene 6A "Quiereme Mucho" (singers: Yumesaki Nene, Suzumi Shio, Yumeno Seika, Kurenai Yuzuru, Shirahana Remi) music is replaced.

Cast

Nova Bossa Nova:

RoleCastGrand Theater Shinko CastTokyo Shinko Cast
Sol (a chivalrous thief)Yuzuki Reon Mao Yuuki"
Estrela (a young woman sightseeing)Yumesaki Nene Saotome Wakaba"
Father Lua (a naive priest)Suzumi Shio Rei Makoto"
Sister Mama (a nun wooing Father Lua)Ema Naoki Tenju Mitsuki"
Ouro (a thief) ♦¦ Yumeno Seika / Kurenai Yuzuru / Makaze Suzuho Toa Reiya "
Mar (a peddlar) ♦¦ Kurenai Yuzuru / Makaze Suzuho / Yumeno Seika Serika Toa"
Mrs. Mel (Estrela's mother) ♦¦ Makaze Suzuho / Yumeno Seika / Kurenai Yuzuru Makaze SuzuhoSazanami Reira
Brisa (a peddlar girl. Mar's fiance)Shirahana Remi Otoha Minori"
Labios (a peddlar girl in love with Ouro)Hisaki Seara Kaga Ririka"
Bolso (Ouro's follower)Miya Rurika Natsuki Rei"
Bolo (a boy who adores Sol)Otoha Minori Kisaki Airi"
Madam XMari Yuzumi Kitori Mariya"
Madam Gado ♦¦ Marino Yui / Kawai Mizuho / Otohana Yuri Yumeki Anru"
PolicemanMiki Chigusa Ooki Makoto"
PolicemanMishiro Ren Senju Haru"
PimpAmagiri Mayo --
PierrotTsurumi Mayuu --
Purple ButterflyIchijou Azusa --
PierrotKisaragi Ren --
Pickpocket GirlKitori Mariya --
PierrotOoki Makoto --
Door BoyMao Yuuki Shidou RyuuMakaze Suzuho
Venus Rei Makoto Hinami Fuu"
Pierrot Yuuka Riko"
Aimi Serena"
Murasaki Rira"


Grand Theater
♦¦ 4/15 - 4/28: Ouro, Yumeno Seika; Mar, Kurenai Yuzuru; Mrs. Mel, Makaze Suzuho; Madam Gado, Marino Yui
♦¦ 4/29 - 5/09: Ouro, Kurenai Yuzuru; Mar, Makaze Suzuho; Mrs. Mel, Yumeno Seika; Madam Gado, Kawai Mizuho
♦¦ 5/10 - 5/16: Ouro, Makaze Suzuho; Mar, Yumeno Seika; Mrs. Mel, Kurenai Yuzuru; Madam Gado, Otohana Yuri

Tokyo
♦¦ 6/03 - 6/10: Ouro, Yumeno Seika; Mar, Makaze Suzuho; Mrs. Mel, Kurenai Yuzuru; Madam Gado, Marino Yui
♦¦ 6/11 - 6/24: Ouro, Makaze Suzuho; Mar, Kurenai Yuzuru; Mrs. Mel, Yumeno Seika; Madam Gado, Otohana Yuri
♦¦ 6/25 - 7/03: Ouro, Kurenai Yuzuru; Mar, Yumeno Seika; Mrs. Mel, Makaze Suzuho; Madam Gado, Kawai Mizuho


A Second Fortuitous Meeting:

RoleCast
Dorante Vespert (An aristocratic youth and son of Duke Vespert)Yuzuki Reon
Silvia d'Orgon (Daughter of Count Orgon)Yumesaki Nene
Count Orgon (Feudal lord of Phosphor)Ema Naoki
Countess Largo (Lover of Lucidor)Mari Yuzumi
Fomalhaut (Leader of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Miki Chigusa
Mario d'Orgon (Older brother of Silvia)Suzumi Shio
Electra (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Marino Yui
Canopus (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Mishiro Ren
Procyon (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Amagiri Mayo
Spica (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Kawai Mizuho
Rigel (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Otohana Yuri
Grue (Servant to the Orgon household)Tsurumi Mayuu
Lucidor Graphith (Royal Chevalier and Deputy Knight)Yumeno Seika
Albireo (Older sister of Silvia)Hisaki Seara
Bourguignon (Dorante's attendant)Kurenai Yuzuru
Graffias (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Aomi Rima
Lisette (Silvia's maid)Shirahana Remi
Castor (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Ichijou Azusa
Agis Le Cain (The 24th prince in line to the throne in the Le Cain Kingdom)Miya Rurika
Sirius (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Kisaragi Ren
Blanc (Servant to the Orgon household)Shirotae Natsu
Capella (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Minakaze Rina
Corine <Hermidas> (Leonid's maidservant)Kitori Mariya
Julius (Butler to the Orgon household)Tenju Mitsuki
Leonid de Lowell (Fauchon de Lowell; Daughter of Count Lowell)Otoha Minori
Mira (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Yuuka Riko
Hermocrate Oswell Marquis (A playwright and the son of Count Oswell, whose realm is a remote region)Makaze Suzuho
Aria (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Yumeki Anru
Keter (Agis' servant)Serika Toa
Chokhmah (Agis' servant) Toa Reiya
Colette (Agis' maidservant)Saotome Wakaba
Altair (Member of the troupe performing at the Star Festival)Mao Yuuki


Other Cast: Kai Hayato, Asato Mao, Shiotsuki Shuu‡ , Shingetsu Saku, Hishiro Yua, Masabuki Minori, Seki Yurito, Kizaki Reo, Shizuki Otone, Wakanatsu Ayame, Yumeshiro Eren, Sorano Miyu, Tamahana Yufu, Oushina Yuu, Marina Mayu, Sazanami Reira‡, Hyuuga Ran, Shouma June, Hinatano Karin, Hiroka Yuu‡ , Outsu Risa, Ouzuki Akari, Mai Hinano, Seo Yuria, Renju Kouki, Otosaki Itsuki, Shiratori Yuriya, Gojou Marina, Takuto Rei, Asamizu Ryou‡ , (Tokyo) Rui Makise, Umino Mitsuki, Himeno Ree, Ayaki Hikari, Yumeto Asami, Ouha Mirai, Asahina Aoi, Himesaki Mirei, Mizusa Ruru

Summary

WARNING!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!


Nova Bossa Nova


This is a famous revue which has been performed eight times by Takarazuka Revue, beginning in 1971. It incorporates well-known Spanish songs with new Japanese ones to tell the story of Sol, Estrela, Ouro, and Brisa. The only spoken dialogue in the revue is the priest and the nun, plus one line each by Sol and Estrella. The rest is told through song, or acted out.

Rio de Janeiro in South America. Once every year a carnival takes place for three days and three nights. Everyone is excitedly preparing for the big event.

The revue opens with a scene introducing the main characters. They sing happily about the sea and the sky. Later, Sol and Ouro each rob a bank with their young helpers. They meet and Ouro is instantly jealous of Sol. He tries to best him in coolness, but Sol throws money to the crowd and departs with their shrieking loyalty. Later, Sol dons a ragged disguise to hide from the police. He manages to misdirect them and disappears.

That night, everyone goes to the tango club. Ouro is sleazing up to Estrella, desperate to get his paws on her diamond necklace. He steals it without her noticing, then Sol tricks him into giving it up, and then Ouro's follower pulls a gun and takes it back. Sol takes a nasty knock over the head.

Mar and Brisa are happily walking along in the night singing of their love. Bolo, Sol's helper, comes to beg Mar's help to get the dizzy thief home. While she's waiting for Mar to return, Brisa hears sirens. Ouro comes running by, the police in pursuit. He sees an opportunity and grabs her, kissing her passionately to throw the police off. Dazed, Brisa lets Ouro lead her away.

The next day Brisa and Ouro, and Sol and Estrela and dancing on the beach. Everyone is happy and celebrating carnival. Suddenly, Mar appears. He is looking frantically through the crowds for Brisa. He finds her dancing passionately with Ouro and is enraged. The two men fight, trying to posses Brisa. Ouro thinks he has won, and then Mar pulls his knife and lunges. Brisa is caught between them.

Mar is devastated, as is Ouro. Both men sing in sorrow and distress. Eventually, Ouro is comforted by Labios. Mar is arrested, but Sol sends Bolo to bribe the guards and free him. Mar is happy to have a new chance at life. Everyone dances for the joy of life.

Later that night, while Bolso, Ouro's follower, is getting ready for carnival, the diamond necklace is stolen. It eventually ends up in the hands of Madam X, a woman in a female-only nightclub. Both Sol and Ouro don female disguises to go in in pursuit of the necklace. Eventually it is Sol who emerges triumphantly, and he returns the necklace to Estrela.

The next morning Estrela must leave Rio de Janiero. She and Sol say their goodbyes, and Sol is sad to watch her go. As she leaves, she drops her necklace. After an internal battle, the thief returns it to her mother. Not seconds after she goes off stage, however, we hear a cry and Bolso runs past with the necklace once more. Sol trips him, and the necklace flies through the air to land at the feet of Lua and Mama. Mama adds it to her collection box. Sol laughs and goes to join the last of the carnival.



A Second Fortuitous Meeting


Based on the 17th century romantic comedy by Marivaux, this is the tale of a man and a woman who are intended to marry who switch places with two strangers in order to observe their intended partner, and what happens because of this switch. Koyanagi Naoko's Grand Theater debut.

From the Hankyu Website:

A tale from the fairly distant past. In the village of Phosphor on the day of the Star Festival, when once a year the "star in the center of the north" rises to its highest height, there was a legend that lovers who pray for love under the village's sacred tree of Yggdrasil will be happy for eternity.

One day in the early afternoon, Dorante Vespert, son of Duke Vespert, is traveling together with his attendant Bourguignon along a country road leading to Phosphor, a territory of the Count of Orgon. It has been decided to hold a contest to find a groom for the Count's daughter, Silvia, who is a great beauty according to the rumors circulating in the royal city. Dorante decides to visit the Orgon residence as a candidate. Count Orgon's family may rule a rural region, but it is still wealthy and owns vast amounts of land. On the other hand, Dorante's marriage to Silvia would secure the future of the Vespert family, which has status but little in the way of money. Dorante, however, is a bit of a misogynist who is skeptical on the idea of love and unhappy with the idea of being evaluated as a prospective groom. Bourguignon soothes his reluctant master. An itinerant troupe appears. They are making preparations to stage entertainment in celebration of today's Star Festival. But the group is in a quandary: a playwright has disappeared before finishing the essential conclusion to the script for their play. Dorante, a fan of the dramatic arts, asks what the performance is about. He is told it is the story of a prospective bride and bridegroom, both with a perverse sense of humor, who agree to disguise themselves as others so as to observe their respective partners. This gives Dorante an idea: that he and Bourguignon switch roles in an attempt to evaluate Silvia.

Around the same time, Silvia, the central figure in the contest to select a groom, reveals to her father her resistance to marriage. When Count Orgon asks why, her brother Mario explains that the reason is her broken heart. Silvia, however, expounds on her desire to marry only after determining the true nature of her partner, rather than being swayed by superficial attraction. Mario tells her that her idea is in parallel with the plot of a play written by one of his friends. This makes Silvia consider a plan to trade places with her attendant Lisette so that she can observe her prospective husband. Intrigued by her brother's remark, Silvia persuades her father to play along. And so, the two women switch roles.

Dorante and four prospective bridegrooms arrive one after another at the residence of Count Orgon. One is Lucidor, Royal Chevalier and Deputy Knight. He is participating in the selection in order to resolve a long but unproductive relationship with Countess Largo. Agis, the 24th prince in line to the minor Le Cain Kingdom, is disillusioned by his position as the last-born son of his impoverished realm. He is presenting himself as a prospective groom out of a desire for a glamorous life in a powerful realm. The other disingenuous participants include Fauchon, son of Lord Lowell. But this Fauchon is in fact Leonid, Fauchon's younger sister who is disguised as him. Leonid is madly in love with Silvia's older brother Mario. But she has been ordered to keep her distance from Mario after she had been following him obsessively. Keen to be by his side, she switches with Fauchon to become one of the suitors and manages to get inside the Orgon residence. A fifth person is Hermocrate, who is depressed over his lack of talent and ability and has been put forward in the contest by this father. A friend of Mario's, he is also the playwright whose whereabouts the traveling troupe is searching.

So we have Dorante, playing the attendant Bourguignon, and Silvia, who has similarly traded places with the servant Lisette. Their goals are unique, to determine their respective partners' true persona. What will be the fate of this grand play concocted by Dorante and Silvia? All of the actors and actresses are present, and the curtain rises on the "selection for a groom."

Other Information


  • An "Eve of Festivities" performance was held for Nova Bossa Nova on April 4th. OGs Maho Shibuki, Gou Chigusa, and Makoto Tsubasa made guest appearances.
  • Due to injury, Oushina Yuu was absent from the Eve of Festivities.
  • †  Due to injury, Asamizu Ryou was absent from 4/26 - 5/1.
  • †  Due to poor health, Shiotsuki Shuu was absent from 6/18 - 6/24.
  • †  Due to injury, Hiroka Yuu will be absent until further notice. She was thus absent for the Tokyo shinjin kouen on 6/16.
  • † Due to injury, Sazanami Reira was absent from 4/28 until the end of the Grand Theater run on 5/16. She was thus absent for the shinjin kouen on 5/3; her intended role of Mrs. Mel was played by Makaze Suzuho, and Makaze's role of the Door Boy was covered by Shidou Ryuu.

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